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Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of ProLife Politics
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How can those who seek to protect the right to life defend assassination in the name of saving lives? Carol Mason investigates this seeming paradox by examining prolife literatureboth archival material and writings from the front lines of the conflict. Her analysis reveals the apocalyptic thread that is the ideological link between established antiabortion organizations and the more shadowy prolife terrorists who subject clinic workers to anthrax scares, bombs, and bullets.The portrayal of abortion as Americas Armageddon began in the 1960s. In the 1970s, Mason says, Christian politics and the postVietnam paramilitary culture popularized the idea that legal abortion is a harbinger of apocalypse. By the 1990s, Mason asserts, even the movements mainstream had taken up the call, narrating abortion as an apocalyptic battle between socalled Christian and antiChristian forces. Prolife violence of the 1990s signaled a move away from protest and toward retribution, she writes. Prolife retribution is seen as a way to restore the order of God. In this light, the phenomenon of killing for life is revealed not as an oxymoron, but as a logical consistency and a political manifestation of religious retribution.Masons scrutiny of primary sources (direct mail, internal memoranda, personal letters, underground manuals, and prolife films, magazines, and novels) draws attention to elements of prolife millennialism. Killing for Life is a powerful indictment of prolife ideology as a coherent, massproduced narrative that does not merely condone violence, but anticipates it as part of Gods plan.
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